papadoc
July 16th, 2013, 04:52
Having just gone through the exercise to ship wheels and tires from California to Massachusetts, I thought it would be worthwhile to post this for future reference for anyone needing to do the same. Kday now has my OEM 9 spoke wheels and Continental Extreme Contact DW setup to run until the snow falls in the Northeast.
Shipping options are varied and when first researched, way more than anticipated- $380 was the cheapest UPS quote I could find. Well, let me recommend ShipNEX, http://www.shipnex.com. Their quote came in at $212 and furthermore, the shipping was still via UPS! By the way, tire and wheel combo weighed in at 56 pounds.
Next item was to figure out how to ship. Kevin suggested cardboard on the ends, and a glance at other forums suggested this would work.
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Before putting cardboard over the wheels, two layers of small bubble wrap to protect the rims from any more scrapes than the curb rash I picked up in the 8+ years on these wheels.
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Then cardboard circles to cover the wheels. Put two layers over the outer rim and one on the inner wheel.
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Finally, wrapped the wheels in mover's stretch plastic wrap and attached shipping label from ShipNEX to the outside of the wheel.
Scheduled pickup online and UPS showed up and a week later, Kday had the packages delivered as scheduled.
Would have to suggest ShipNEX, as recommended on other forums, as they actually ended up using UPS for a significant discount vs. standard UPS. Hope this will be of some use to somebody in the future.
Shipping options are varied and when first researched, way more than anticipated- $380 was the cheapest UPS quote I could find. Well, let me recommend ShipNEX, http://www.shipnex.com. Their quote came in at $212 and furthermore, the shipping was still via UPS! By the way, tire and wheel combo weighed in at 56 pounds.
Next item was to figure out how to ship. Kevin suggested cardboard on the ends, and a glance at other forums suggested this would work.
14019
Before putting cardboard over the wheels, two layers of small bubble wrap to protect the rims from any more scrapes than the curb rash I picked up in the 8+ years on these wheels.
14017
Then cardboard circles to cover the wheels. Put two layers over the outer rim and one on the inner wheel.
14018
Finally, wrapped the wheels in mover's stretch plastic wrap and attached shipping label from ShipNEX to the outside of the wheel.
Scheduled pickup online and UPS showed up and a week later, Kday had the packages delivered as scheduled.
Would have to suggest ShipNEX, as recommended on other forums, as they actually ended up using UPS for a significant discount vs. standard UPS. Hope this will be of some use to somebody in the future.